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A Life For An Education, By Dame Leah Manning - 1970

by: Dame Leah Manning

Publication date: 1970

Topics: Leah Manning, Teaching, Homerton College, Cambridge, Cambridge UK, National Union of Teachers, Spanish Civil War.

Collection: folkscanomy_biography; folkscanomy; additional_collections

Language: English

Dame Leah Manning MP's autobiography from 1970. She studied at Homerton College, Cambridge, before teaching in one of the primary schools in the poorest parts of town. It was this experience that shaped her politics. She went onto become President of the National Union of Teachers, an MP in the second Labour minority government of Ramsay MacDonald, became a reporter and aid worker during the Spanish Civil War, rescuing thousands of children from the Bombing of Bilbao. Elected an MP again in 1945.